Carboy carrier



A. J. BECKER. CABBOY CARRIER. .APPucATloN FILED APR. 14. 192m.

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UNH'E@ j ALLEN J'. BECKER, OF ESSEX FELLS, NEW JERSEY.

CARBGY CARRIER.

Application led April 14, 1921. Serial No. 461,384.

To all whom t ma'yconcern:

Be it lrnown that I, ALLEN J. BECKER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Essex Fells, in the county of Essex and State of NewJersey, have invent/ed a new and Improved Carboy Carrier, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in carboy carriers of the generalcharacter' set forth in my pending application, Serial Number 436,190,filed on January 10, 1921. In that application, I disclosed a carrierwhich could be used by twomen to safely transport one or more carboys.l'

The primary object of this invention is to provide a carrier which maybe used by one man to conveniently transport carboys, and a carrierwhich will tightly grip a carboy so that there is no danger of breakageand consequent injury to the carrying workman from the burning acidusually contained in such carboys.'

A further object is to provide a carboy carrier in the form of atruclr,which will be capable of carrying carboys of various sizes, which 'willbe simple and practical `in construction, strong, durable and efficientin use, and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists .in certainnovel features of construction and combinations and arrangements ofparts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out inthe claims. Y v

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view illustratingmy improved carboy carrier in use,

Figure 2 is' an enlarged view in transverse section on the line 2--2 ofFigure l,

Figure 3 is a fragmentary top plan view of the locking mechanism,

Figure 4 is a view in transverse section on the line 4-4 of Figure 1, Y

Figure 5 vis a similar view illustrating the parts in position toaccommodate a larger carboy, and

Figure 6 is a fragmentary View in section on the line 6 6 of Figure 4.

Referring in detail to the drawings, I have illustrated in dotted linesat l, a carboy.y equipped with the conventional side rails 2 under whicha lifting device is engageable to transport the carboy.

3 represents the single traction wheel of my improved carboy carrier.The wheel 3 is mounted on an axle such as 4, and to this axle areattached the ends of side rails in a manner to be hereinafter described.

5, 5 represent the side rails of the carrier. These rails are of anysuitable material, preferably a strong wood. Metal strips 7 are securedto the under faces of the forward ends of the rails and are bent to formhook shaped bearing sleeves 8 receiving the wheel axle 4. Spacingsleeves 9 are located around the axle 4 between the hub 10 of the wheeland the hooks 8. Adjusting sleeves 11 around the axle 4 are locatedbetween the hooks 8 and nuts 14 on the ends of the axle, which retainall of the sleeves in position. These nuts are formed with diametricallyopposed openings registering with transverse bores in the axle and pins15 passed through the openings serve to retain the nuts in place. Thesenuts can be removed to permit the interchanging of the positions of thehooks 8 and adjusting sleeves 11 so that the rails 5 may accommodate alarger carboy between them, as indicated in Figure 5. Pins 16 passedthrough the intermediate portions of the strip 7 and the extremities ofthe hooks 8 prevent radial movement of the hooks relative to the axle.

rlhe connection which the strips 7 afford between the rear axle and therails 5 is necessarily somewhat flexible so that the rails may be(spread apart and slipped over the top of a carboy and then advancedtoward one another to engage under the rails 2 of the carboy.

Angle brackets 17 secured to the inner faces of the rails 5 adjacenttheir forward ends prevent a carboy from sliding forwardly when thetruck is in tilted position for wheeling.

The rails 5 terminate in any approved form of handle members 18 andadjacent the handle members, I provide an improved mechanism forpositively preventing accidental spreading of the rails when a carboy issupported therebetween. This mechanism is somewhat similar to the oneillustrated in my pending application above referred to, but embodiesvarious novel features which will appear in the following description.

A relatively long metal arm 19 and a relatively short metal arm 2O aresecured to the rails 5 adjacent the handle members and extend inwardly.These arms are angular in shape at their outer ends and embrace therails 5. Triangular webs or plates 21 are held against the under facesof the rails by strengthening braces in the form of metal strips 22 andsecuring devices such as the bolts 23 are utilized to clamp the arms 19and 20, plates 21 and braces 22 to the rails. That brace 22 which isassociated with the shorter arm extends well under the arm 19 and ismovable through depending rectangular guide brackets 24: carried by thearm 19. A ratchet 25 is supported upon the arm 19. An offset spring arm26 attached to the arm 20 carries a dog 2? maintained in engagement withthe ratchet by the resiliency of the arm '26.'

This dog is integral with a loop handle member 28 for manually liftingthe same out of engagement with the ratchet. A

rectangular guide bracket 29 fixed to the longer brace 22 is passed`through the handle member 2S and encirclesthe arm 19 and the ratchet25.

The ratchet and dog arrangement above described, permits the rails to bequickly advanced toward one another to tightly vgrip under a carboy, asseen in Figure 1, but positively prevents accidental spreading of therails.

lt has been noted before that the connection between the rails 5 and theaxle 4c lends sufficient iiexibility to` the construction to permit suchspreading. After the rails have been passed around the carboy and underthe rails Q, the handles 1S are raised and the device functions asacne-man truck which may be used to wheel a carboy.

IAlthough l have `illustrated one ofthe preferred embodiments of myinvention, it will be apparent that various slight changes andalterationsv might be made in the general form and arrangement of theparts described without departing from the invention and hence l do notwish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but shallconsider myself at liberty to malle such slight changes and alterationsas fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. i

ltmight be noted that the carboy isfurther positively held againstmovement inthe carrier by inwardly presented pointed'p'ins or spurs 30carried by the `inner faces of the rails 5 and engageable inthe softwood of the carboy as the rails are pressed against the sides thereof.

I claim:

1. A carboy carrying truck including a traction wheel, a wheel axleextending laterally on each side of the wheel, a pair of rails adaptedVto support a carboy between them, metal strips attachedto the fcrwardends of the rails, said strips including hook shaped bearing sleevesreceiving the wheel axle, pins assed through the intermediate portion ofthe metal strips and through the extremities of the hooks, whereby thestrips are held against radial movement relative to the axle.

2. A carboy carrying truck including a traction wheel, a wheel axleextending laterally on each side of the wheel, a pair of rails adapted`to support a carboy between them, metal strips attached to the forwardends of the rails, said strips includinghook shaped bearing sleevesreceiving the wheel axle, a plurality of spacing sleeves around thewheel axle, and means permitting the interchanging of the positions ofthe hook shaped members and certainr of the spacing' sleeves, wherebyvarious sized carboys may be supported between the rails.

3.k A carboy carrying truck including a traction wheel, a wheel axleextending laterally on each side of the wheel, a pair of rails pivotallysecured tothe axle and adapted to support a. carboyr between them,

a ratchet toothed bar and a springheld dog carried by the opposite railsermitting the advance of the lfree ends o the rails toward each otherand'preventin'g their relative separation.

4. A carboy carrying truck including a Vtraction wheel7 a wheel axleextending laterally on each side of the wheel, a vpair of railspivotally secured to the axle and adapted to support a carboy betweenthem, a ratchet toothed bar and a spring held dog carried by theopposite rails permitting the advance of the free ends ofthe railstoward each other and preventing' their relative separation, and alooped handle member integral with the dog` for lifting said dog out ofengagement with the ratchet teeth.

5. A carboy carrying truck including a r,Arlllljlld' J. BECKER.

